eMoviePoster.comAuction History Result 5s499 FORBIDDEN CITY 8 8x10 LCs '18 great images of gorgeous Norma Talmadge, Thomas Meighan! Date Sold 3/8/2015Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. 8 Original Vintage Theatrical 8" x 10" [20 x 25 cm] Movie Lobby Card (Learn More) The Forbidden City, the 1918 Sidney A. Franklin silent romantic Asian forbidden interracial romantic melodrama (one of an endless number of such movies that were so popular in the late 1910s and early 1920s, with non-Asians playing all the Asian roles; Talmadge is the daughter of a rich Chinese man in China, who is in love with the U.S. ambassador, and she secretly marries him, and her father gives her to the Emperor, and when he finds out she has had a child with a white man has Talmadge killed; when their daughter grows up, she is also played by Talmadge, and she escapes to Manila where she meets a white soldier and falls in love, and they too are forbidden to marry; as luck would have it, her lover works for her father, who had no idea he had a child, and once he learns she is his daughter, he gives his blessing to their marriage) starring Norma Talmadge, Thomas Meighan, E. Allyn Warren, Michael Rayle, and L. Rogers Lytton NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that, in the early days of movie making, when lobby cards were first made (around 1915), studios would issue sets of the cards in two sizes; the regular 11" x 14" size, and a smaller 8" x 10" size. The cards were identical in every way except for the different size. This practice continued through the early 1920s, at which point the studios abandoned the smaller lobby cards, likely because theaters either ordered 11" x 14" lobby cards or 8" x 10" stills, and did not order enough of the 8" x 10" lobby cards to justify them continuing to make them. Condition: very good to fine. Some of the cards have a few tiny pinholes around the blank borders, but overall the images are in excellent condition! Learn More about condition grades
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